"I wish he would have made it. He's been working on it. Every day we tell him, you got to shoot it," Embiid added. "There's nothing wrong with [taking open shots and missing]. I'm a 30 percent three-point shooter, and you got guys who still jump on my fake.

"Every day he works on it, and I think it's coming. That was the first step, and I hope that he keeps shooting."

Simmons had a cold shooting night against Los Angeles. He only connected on three of his 13 shots for eight points.

On Simmons' three-point effort, 76ers head coach Brett Brown said: "I thought the shot looked good, the rhythm going into looked good, it was close to going in and he didn’t look uncomfortable shooting it."